Aircraft hijacking (also known as airplane hijacking, skyjacking, plane hijacking, plane jacking, air robbery, air piracy, or aircraft piracy, with the...
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Skies: A History of Aircraft Hijacking and Bombing. West Sussex, UK: Summersdale. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-1849538381. "Pilot in ´30 Hijacking". The New York Times...
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Indian Airlines Flight 814 (redirect from Kandahar Hijacking)
hour and 40 minutes since the hijacking of IC 814 and he learned of the hijacking only after disembarking from the aircraft in the VIP bay of Palam Technical...
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Look up hijack, hijacking, or hijacker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hijacking may refer to: Bluejacking, the unsolicited transmission of data via...
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re-inducted days before the hijacking. India retaliated to the hijacking and subsequent burning by banning overflights of Pakistani aircraft over Indian territory...
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D. B. Cooper (redirect from Dan Cooper (aircraft hijacker))
lowered in-flight. By 1973, aircraft hijacking incidents had decreased, as the new security measures dissuaded would-be hijackers whose only motive was money...
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The Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking occurred on 11 December 1969. The aircraft, a Korean Air Lines NAMC YS-11 flying a domestic route from Gangneung Airbase...
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Aircraft hijacking incidents between the United States and Cuba were at their height between 1968 and 1972. These incidents have variously been attributed...
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of the incident, one hijacker had been killed and one injury reported. This was the second instance of mass aircraft hijacking, after an escape from...
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Pan Am Flight 73 (redirect from Pan Am 73 hijacking)
from Karachi had barely reached the aircraft standing on the tarmac when the hijacking began to unfold. Two hijackers dressed in the sky-blue uniforms of...
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Finnair Flight 405 (redirect from Oulu Aircraft Hijacking)
1979. Portals: Aviation Finland Modern history Aircraft hijacking List of aircraft hijackings The Hijack That Went South Incident description for Finnair...
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Lufthansa Flight 181 (redirect from Landshut Hijacking)
Feuerzauber (German for "Magic Fire"). The hijacking is considered to be part of the German Autumn. 3 hijackers and the captain were killed. Two flight crew...
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TWA Flight 847 (redirect from TWA 847 hijacking)
maintaining that the prisoners' release was not related to the hijacking. A famous image of this hijacking was a photograph showing a gun being held near Captain...
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This list of hijackings of Indian aeroplanes is a listing of hijackings or hijacking attempts which have occurred on Indian aircraft. 1971 January 30 :...
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Air France Flight 8969 (redirect from Flight AF 8969 Alger-Paris hijacked)
Civil War. Algeria was in a state of civil war at the time of the hijacking. Aircraft flying to Algeria faced the possibility of missile attacks. As a...
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plane, killing the hijackers and freeing all hostages unhurt. This was the first and only hijacking involving a Singapore Airlines aircraft. The plane, an...
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Israel, that was hijacked on 29 August 1969. There were no fatalities although at least two passengers were lightly wounded and the aircraft was significantly...
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 (redirect from Ethiopian Airlines ET702 hijacking)
on 17 February 2014. The aircraft's transponder began to emit squawk 7500 — the international code for an aircraft hijacking — while flying north over...
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Sabena Flight 571 (redirect from Hijacking of Sabena Flight 572)
Sabena Hijacking: My Version, Israeli docudrama depicting the hijacking and rescue, in which three Prime Ministers of Israel were involved. The aircraft was...
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 (category Airliner accidents and incidents caused by hijacking)
13: African Hijack (Ocean Landing) Hijacking description for ETH574 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 19 March 2020. Hijacking description...
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Japan Air Lines Flight 351 (redirect from Yodogo hijacking)
Japan–North Korea relations 1973 Royal Nepal Airlines DHC-6 hijacking List of aircraft hijackings Portals: Aviation Japan North Korea "Annual Report 2011...
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Delta Air Lines Flight 841 (category Aircraft hijackings in the United States)
Delta Air Lines Flight 841 was an aircraft hijacking that took place beginning on July 31, 1972, on a flight originally from Detroit to Miami. There were...
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All Nippon Airways Flight 61 (redirect from ANA flight 61 hijacking)
The Tokyo Skies (hijacking of an All Nippon Airways flight results in the death of a pilot)". Newsweek. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 747-481D...
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invasion and hostage-taking, followed by the firebombing of a Pan Am aircraft and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight. Pan Am flight 110 was scheduled to depart...
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Entebbe raid (redirect from 1976 Entebbe hijacking)
soldiers were deployed to support the hijackers after the flight landed, and Amin, who had been informed of the hijacking from the beginning, had personally...
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1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions (redirect from 1990 Guangzhou Baiyun hijacked aircraft collision)
Bulgarian Airlines Flight 013 Hijacking description for B-2510 at the Aviation Safety Network "Lessons Learned from Hijacking" (PDF). Flight Safety Digest...
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Federal Express Flight 705 (category Aircraft hijackings in the United States)
their injuries would appear consistent with an accident rather than a hijacking. The CVR, however, was switched back on by the flight engineer, believing...
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Scholars have characterized the hijacking as significant in the advent of modern international air terrorism. The aircraft, a Boeing 707, was scheduled to...
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1973 Royal Nepal Airlines DHC-6 hijacking (also known as the Biratnagar Plane Hijack) was the first aircraft hijacking in the history of Nepal. The main...
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Lufthansa Flight 649 (category Aircraft hijackings)
The hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 649 was an aircraft hijacking that took place between 22 and 23 February 1972. Eventually, all hostages on board the...
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